Charm the pet, make it kill the owner unless they kill it first *eg*
Barring that, stun, stun, stun (and high MR to avoid Fear)

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48th
The Rathe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Sniderman" <fuzzbone@...>
To: "EQ Bards" <eqbards@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Dueling?

> My small 12-member guild is merging with a much larger guild (after merger
> and a bunch of new recruits should be close to 80) that likes to have
guild
> events with a lot of Dueling. I've never done this before.
>
> Saturday we had 3 6-man groups duel. Guessing my way through this - I
> twisted Elemental and Guardian - to keep our team from getting Nukes etc
to
> land on us - and Selos - running around in circles to prevent the tanks
from
> landing blows on me. This was VERY successful. A ranger gave up trying
to
> chase me and peppered me with arrows - but it didn't really do all that
much
> damage. I would also run into a fracas where there were pets pounding on
a
> teammate of mine and would fire off screech.
>
> This got our group to be in a very good shape for the end-game - but then
I
> wasn't in a good spot for that - as there wasn't much casting going on. A
> Necro was hiding in bones form in a firepot medding while her pet was
> fighting someone. I decided to try to go after the necro and tank her -
but
> she was good at fearing me - and while I tried to screech her pet - I got
> some resists. Her pet ultimately killed me - with a remaining tank (from
> the other team helping out).
>
> Anywho, I'm curious of advice from other Bards who may be more experienced
> at this as far as good tactics for duels.
>
> Slyde Katzenjammer
> 54 Bard
>
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